Can anyone help me? I know we have a proxy, but the installer seems to be negotiating that OK... My install of ModelE also uses a similar method of downloading files online automatically and it has no trouble.

I think that the best person that can help you is your system/network administrator. It is impossible that anyone of us know how your network proxy is set up and what has to be done at that computer to make a pass through that proxy.

meteoadriatic wrote:I think that the best person that can help you is your system/network administrator. It is impossible that anyone of us know how your network proxy is set up and what has to be done at that computer to make a pass through that proxy.

Well, actually our proxy is really transparent. The only time I've had trouble in the past is with SFTP, and also that ModelE script's wget works flawlessly. Trust me, given our network people, it would be easier to simplify the EMS script than try to bend the rules on the proxy (since it's already very transparent). Patricia

That's what I've done, but I use the KDE proxy tool to do it. I believe the system proxy is needed for curl to work correctly, but come to think of it, I have not tried wget with the proxy configured incorrectly (I can try giving the proxy the wrong password and see if the ModelE wget still works). I know browsers like Firefox have their own proxy settings, and don't usually rely on the linux system proxy.

meteoadriatic wrote:You can download files manually, then execute ems_install.pl and give it local directory as source for files. This will be easiest way probably.

Do you know where I could download the files? I believe after installation the perl scripts have proxy entries so I assume they would work better than the installer itself. I have an installation at home which is about 18 GB, and I can just tar that and copy it to my home folder at work.